noun · feminine
apothēkas
Strong’sG596
a repository, granary, barn, storehouse
stem apothēk-6 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀπο-θήκη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἀποτίθημι), [in LXX for אוֹצָר, טֶנֶא, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G596 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidap-oth-ay'-kay
a repository, i.e. granary
Fromfrom G659;
King Jamesbarn, garner.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
any place wherein to lay up a thing, magazine, storehouse, Refs 5th c.BC+burial-place, Refs
2 refuge, Refs 5th c.BC+
II anything laid by, store, ἀποθήκην ποιεῖσθαι ἐς τὸν Πέρσην lay up store of favour with him, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | apothēkas1×ἀποθήκη | apothēkais |
| object accusative | apothēkan3×ἀποθήκην | apothēkain2×ἀποθήκας |
| direct address vocative | apothēkar | apothēkair |
| of, belonging to genitive | apothēkau | apothēkaiu |
| to, for dative | apothēka | apothēkai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
apothēka is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
apothēkas“barn”subjectnominative singular1×
Luke 12:24… therizalō, hoi ouk atō tameiem oude apothēkas, kai tos theos trefatō autoin; pose …… reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much …
apothēkan“barn”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 3:12… sunagati ton siton autou eis tan apothēkan, tem de achurem katakaiati pure asbeste.… to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the …
Matthew 13:30… ton de siton sunagavar eis tan apothēkan mu.… then gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Luke 3:17… kai sunagara ton siton eis tan apothēkan autou, tem de achurem katakaiati pure …… to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the …
apothēkain“barns”objectaccusative plural2×
Matthew 6:26… speralō oude therizalō oude sunagalō eis apothēkain, kai tos patros vu tos ouranios …… sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds …
Luke 12:18… legata; Houtem poiami; kathairami mu tain apothēkain kai megoterain oikodomami, kai sunagami ekei …… do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and …